Duties beyond borders: A historical approach to protecting the vulnerable

如果有的话，国家对境外的弱势群体负有什么义务，无论他们是寻求庇护，需要人道主义援助，还是需要保护免受大规模暴行？本项目计划采取历史的方法来回答这个问题。关于对脆弱的陌生人和外国人的责任的思考有着悠久而丰富的历史，但当代关于全球正义和“保护责任”的文献在很大程度上对此视而不见。该项目旨在通过产生一种思想的历史来纠正这一点，即国家有责任帮助和保护其边界以外的人免受大规模痛苦。然后，它的目的是研究如何这段历史可以告知我们对当今的辩论和困境的理解。

What, if anything, do states owe to vulnerable people beyond their borders, be they seeking asylum, needing humanitarian assistance, or requiring protection from mass atrocities? This project plans to take a historical approach to answering this question. There is a long and rich history of thinking about duties to vulnerable strangers and foreigners, but the contemporary literature on global justice and the ‘responsibility to protect’ is largely blind to it. The project aims to redress this by producing a history of the idea that states have duties to assist and protect those beyond their borders from mass suffering. It then aims to examine how this history can inform our understanding of present-day debates and dilemmas.